The Virginia Negro Artisan and Tradesman, 第 103 卷William Byrd Press, 1926 - 146 頁 The growing importance of the skilled labor class in Virginia as well as in the entire South is sufficient justification for this essay on The Virginia Negro Artisan and Tradesman. This phase of the Negro problem seems destined to assume greater proportions as Virginia and the Southern States take an inevitably more active part in the future manufacturing activities of the nation. Because of the the lack of more adequate information on this subject there is widespread misunderstanding regarding the progress and the condition of the Negro in the field of the skilled trades of Virginia and the South. -- Preface. |
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Alfred Marshall apprentice apprenticeship average wage blacksmiths bricklayers brickmaking building trades cent century Cigar and tobacco cities colony Commissioner of Labor coopers cotton crafts DeBow's Review decrease economic female firemen firms reported free Negroes Hampton History of Virginia increased iron James River Lynchburg makers manual labor Mechanical and Manufacturing mechanical trades mills Negro artisans Negro in Virginia Negro labor Negro women Negro workers Negroes and whites Negroes engaged Norfolk Number of Artisans number of free number of Negro number of slaves number of white operatives period planters race ratio Richmond sawyers schools semi-skilled servants shoemakers Showing the Number skilled trades slave artisans TABLE textile Thousand Males thousand Negro males tion tobacco factories total number U. S. Census Virginia Gazette Virginia Negro W. E. B. DuBois wages of Negroes wages of white weavers white artisans white carpenters white laborers White Negro whites and Negroes William Byrd writes
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第 43 頁 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
第 43 頁 - They astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory; such as prove their reason and sentiment strong, their imagination glowing and elevated. But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never see even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture.
第 43 頁 - Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where the arts and sciences are cultivated to a considerable degree, and have had before their eyes samples...
第 43 頁 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
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第 44 頁 - ... continue with their parents to a certain age, then to be brought up, at the public expense, to tillage, arts, or sciences, according to their geniuses, till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age, when they should be colonized to such place as the circumstances of the time should render most proper...
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第 43 頁 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles.
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